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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Abbas: Israel to blame for failure of latest talks
FILE- In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are seated together as they listen to U.S President Barack Obama, not seen, in the East Room of the White House in Washington on the resumption of direct peace talks. Abbas said Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, Israel has caused the failure of the latest round of low-level talks with the Palestinians by not presenting detailed proposals. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE- In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are seated together as they listen to U.S President Barack Obama, not seen, in the East Room of the White House in Washington on the resumption of direct peace talks. Abbas said Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, Israel has caused the failure of the latest round of low-level talks with the Palestinians by not presenting detailed proposals. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ? The Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Sunday blamed each other for the impasse in newly launched peace efforts, raising doubts about whether the dialogue would continue just weeks after it began.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of spoiling the low-level talks, saying it failed to present detailed proposals for borders and security requested by international mediators. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Palestinians "refused to even discuss" Israeli security needs.
For the past month, the sides have held Jordanian-mediated exploratory talks at the urging of the Quartet of international Mideast mediators ? the U.S., the U.N., the E.U. and Russia. The goal of the talks has been to find a formula to resume formal peace negotiations, with the aim of forging an agreement this year.
The Palestinians say a three-month period set by the Quartet for the exploratory talks ended last week, counting from the day the mediators issued their marching orders last October.
But Abbas, deeply skeptical about the hardline Netanyahu, is under intense international pressure to stay at the table and would risk being blamed for the failure of the latest Mideast peace efforts.
Walking away would be a risky strategy at a time when he seeks global recognition of a state of Palestine ahead of a possible border deal with Israel. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is expected in the region this week to help keep the talks alive.
Abbas said Israel's efforts so far have fallen short.
"By not presenting a clear vision on the issues of borders and security, as the Quartet demanded, Israel foiled the exploratory talks in Amman," Abbas said in remarks published late Saturday by the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Israel has said it wants to keep talking and is serious about reaching a deal by year's end. It says the exploratory talks should continue for another two months, starting its countdown of the Quartet's three-month period from the beginning of meetings in early January.
Addressing his Cabinet on Sunday, Netanyahu said the dialogue had gotten off to a rocky start, but held out hope the talks would continue.
"Until this moment, according to what happened in recent days, the Palestinians refused to even discuss with us the needs of Israel's security," he said. "The signs are not very good, but I hope they will come to their senses and we'll continue the talks so we can reach real negotiations."
The Quartet had asked both sides to present detailed proposals on borders and security arrangements between Israel and a future Palestinian state, in hopes the exploratory talks would evolve into full negotiations.
The Palestinians said they presented four-page proposals on each subject, but refused to elaborate. Earlier this week, Israel presented its principles for drawing a border with a future state of Palestine ? the first-ever indication by Netanyahu on how much war-won land he would be willing to relinquish.
Abbas said he remains committed to serious negotiations that would lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state, with east Jerusalem as its capital.
The Palestinians want to establish their state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians, who regained control of Gaza in 2005, have said they are willing to swap some land to enable Israel to keep some of the largest of dozens of settlements it has built on occupied lands. In talks with Netanyahu's predecessor, the Palestinians suggested swapping 1.9 percent of the West Bank, while Israel proposed 6.5 percent.
Two Palestinian officials said last week that Israel proposed keeping control of east Jerusalem and essentially turning its West Bank separation barrier into the border. That would place attach roughly 10 percent of the West Bank to Israel.
Israeli officials have declined comment.
However, it is unlikely Abbas would accept any deal that leaves east Jerusalem under Israeli control and gives him only 90 percent of the West Bank.
Abbas consulted Sunday with his Fatah movement and was to talk Monday with top officials in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Abbas said he would make his final decision after briefing the Arab League at the end of the week.
Western diplomats said Quartet envoy Tony Blair will try in coming days to persuade Netanyahu to agree to incentives to salvage the talks, including the release of veteran Palestinian prisoners.
Mahmoud Aloul, a senior Fatah official, said Sunday that Fatah would likely urge Abbas to end the talks.
"There is no hope ... that these talks or any talks with this right-wing Israeli government would lead to any progress," Aloul said.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Yemen: Republican Guard mutiny crushed
SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? A Yemeni military official says units loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh have crushed a mutiny by Republican Guard troops in the capital demanding the ouster of their commander.
The official says an unspecified number of people were wounded when loyalist Guard units crushed the mutiny by the force's 4th Brigade outside Sanaa on Sunday.
He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military rules.
The Republican Guard is considered a pillar of the regime.
Yemen is preparing for presidential elections on Feb. 21, but many fear that Saleh will try to keep his allies in power.
Saleh is currently in the United States seeking medical treatment. Yemen's air force has seen a wave of anti-Saleh mutinies over the past week.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Under-used labour, pending housing bubble, problems for Canada: panel.
OTTAWA ? Never mind Europe or the United States, Canada's got a number of its own economic problems, according a panel of experts who gathered Thursday in Ottawa.
An inflated housing market, an under-utilization of the country's human resources and growing gaps between rich and poor were just a few of the issues brought up in a discussion that took place on Parliament Hill, organized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Patti Croft, recently retired from being chief economist for RBC Global Asset Management, cited the risk of a housing bubble as among Canada's biggest issues. Part of the problem, she said, is exceptionally low mortgage rates, due to the Bank of Canada's low interest rate of one per cent ? a level intended to support the economy.
"Historically, after a long period of low interest rates, what lies ahead is some kind of speculative excess," she said.
The central bank's rate has not been more than one per cent in more than three years, going as low as 0.25 per cent for more than a year as it fought off the effects of a recession.
There was some concern expressed about the economic effects of the federal government's coming spending cuts, but Croft said "the greater concern is the looming housing bubble that we see, particularly in cities like Toronto and Vancouver, because I think that is where the speculative excesses lie."
Jim Stanford, economist with the Canadian Auto Worker union, cited a failure to make use of Canada's labour market as the biggest issue facing the economy.
"Our GDP is at least $100 billion below what its potential should be, just on the basis of pre-recession trends in per-capita GDP," he said.
"Remember, if we were to close that output gap and actually produce what we're capable of, over a third of that flows directly to government in the form of revenue of various kinds, which is the real way to bring the deficit down and pay off our debts."
Alice Nakamura, a professor of finance with the University of Alberta, agreed the economy would benefit if more use were made of the country's available labour.
"We've got aging populations, we've got a shortage of people to provide all sorts of care, but we don't have the dollars to pay for that," she said.
"There's still a lot of things that need to be done that could use the talents of people who can't necessarily do a lot of math or handle computers, but we don't have the buying power out there to request those things."
In terms of how to deal with such issues, Nakamura said: "I don't think it will just fix it to have government spend more money. I actually don't know what the solutions are to those problems."
There was some disagreement on how effective it would be to use taxation to more fairly distribute income in Canada. Stanford was in support of higher taxes on the wealthiest Canadians.
"It's shocking that (U.S. Republican leadership candidate) Mitt Romney pays 15 per cent tax, and frankly, if rich investors in Canada were forced to disclose their income-tax returns for political reasons, like he was, it wouldn't be very much different in Canada," Stanford said.
Croft, on the other hand, rejected the notion of raising taxes directly on wealthy individuals or corporations, arguing it would lead to much of both leaving the country. She did, however, express support for higher consumption taxes, which she said in effect would get more money out of rich people.
She also called for better access to education, training that more closely matches the economy's needs and more child care as things that would help Canada's low- and middle-income earners.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Belkin ScreenCast
More and more laptops equipped with Intel's second-generation Core processors offer a nifty perk for presentation givers and multimedia buffs: Wireless Display or WiDi, which beams the laptop's display and audio to a living-room HDTV or conference-room monitor with no cords or cables required. What is required, however, is a WiDi adapter or receiver connected to the TV, and Belkin has a fine example in the ScreenCast TV Adapter for Intel Wireless Display ($129.99 list). It's one of the most effective and easiest-to-use accessories we've seen, and as such, it's our Editors' Choice for WiDi adapters.
An alternative to the arguably better-known (or at least more promoted by Best Buy and, mea culpa, more often mentioned by PCMag) Netgear Push2TV HD (4 stars, $99.99 list), the ScreenCast is a similar black plastic box about the size of a trade paperback. It plugs into a TV or monitor using an HDMI cable (supplied) or three-pronged RCA cable (not supplied), and also into an AC outlet using a provided adapter.
Setup takes under a minute if you dawdle; the Belkin device even shaves a few seconds off the Netgear Push2TV setup time by shipping with its HDMI and power cables already connected. Once you've plugged the ScreenCast in, tune your TV to the proper video input (such as HDMI 2 or HDMI 3); after a few seconds, a "Ready for connection" screen will tell you to launch the WiDi software on your laptop. The latter will scan for adapters and find the ScreenCast. Double-click on it, and you'll be prompted for one-time entry of a four-digit security code that appears on the TV screen. Then you can rename the adapter to something descriptive such as "Living Room" or "Conference Room C."
Pressing the Windows key and P, as with a projector or other external monitor, lets you choose whether to duplicate the notebook's display on the TV or extend the desktop across both so you can, say, drag a Windows Media Player or WinDVD movie to the big screen while checking e-mail on the laptop.
The only thing that might be a little daunting for nontechnical users is keeping up with Intel's updates. Our test unit automatically noticed and installed a firmware update, and Belkin suggests making sure you've got the latest WiFi and graphics drivers and WiDi software to enjoy the latest capabilities.
Those capabilities include HDCP support for copy-protected as well as unprotected video content, meaning you can stream a DVD or Blu-ray title across the room at full 1080p resolution with 5.1 surround sound. PC Labs' Blu-ray of Ghostbusters, popped into a Toshiba Satellite P745-S4320 notebook, looked and sounded great on a 75-inch Sharp HDTV, as did 1080p video clips from YouTube and the Labs' collection. There were no latency problems or stutters at distances ranging from 5 to 15 feet, apart from a couple of buffering moments with the YouTube clips that were almost certainly ordinary cases of WiFi rather than WiDi latency.
Indeed, whereas our reviewer noticed some slight mouse and keyboard lag with the Push2TV, I couldn't make that complaint about the ScreenCast: Rather than "typing on the laptop's keyboard and watching the letters appear a millisecond (or two) later," text on the TV kept up with my utmost typing speed. Credit probably goes to driver updates since that June 2011 review (or your being a slower typist?Ed.), but it's another way the Belkin proved trouble-free. Actually, the only improvement the ScreenCast could use is a small price cut: At $129.99, its list price is $30 higher than its Netgear rival's, though we easily found online resellers offering it for around $100.
Just as the number of laptops with WiDi 2.1 is growing, it seems likely that more and more HDTVs will soon have WiDi receivers built in; Intel and LG announced last month that the latter's Cinema 3D Smart TVs will be so equipped in 2012. Even then, the Belkin ScreenCast earns an Editors' Choice nod as a sensational way to stream content to or just enjoy working on a big screen from the comfort of your couch.
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NC Democratic Gov. Perdue won't seek re-election
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue wears a Freightliner hat as she smiles during a news conference at a Freightliner plant in Cleveland, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. About 1,100 workers laid off from a factory that builds long-distance Freightliner trucks will be called back to work to meet increasing demand as economies in the U.S. and elsewhere improve, Daimler Trucks North America said Thursday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue wears a Freightliner hat as she smiles during a news conference at a Freightliner plant in Cleveland, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. About 1,100 workers laid off from a factory that builds long-distance Freightliner trucks will be called back to work to meet increasing demand as economies in the U.S. and elsewhere improve, Daimler Trucks North America said Thursday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ? Democratic North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue, the first woman elected governor in the state, said Thursday she would not seek re-election this year because she believes a bid would make it more difficult to fund education.
Perdue has faced poor poll numbers, continued budget troubles and a campaign investigation while Republicans took over the Legislature last year.
She announced last week she would offer a budget this spring that would seek a sales tax increase for education. Republicans let a temporary sales tax increase expire last summer, and at least one legislative leader called her proposal dead on arrival.
"We live in highly partisan times, where some people seem more worried about scoring political points than working together to address the real challenges our state faces," Perdue said in an email to supporters. A re-election bid, she added, "will only further politicize the fight to adequately fund our schools."
Perdue faced a tough rematch against former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, a Republican she narrowly defeated in 2008 in the state's closest gubernatorial contest since 1972. Perdue's win was partly attributed to Barack Obama's surprise victory in North Carolina ? the first in 36 years for a Democratic nominee for president.
News of Perdue's decision came as North Carolina Democratic Rep. Brad Miller said he also would not seek re-election, avoiding a potential primary contest against fellow Democrat David Price after the Republican-controlled Legislature drew them into the same district.
North Carolina is considered an important state for Obama's re-election prospects and Democrats decided to hold the party convention in Charlotte in September.
Perdue, 65, has struggled with a state economy hit hard by the recession and an unemployment rate persistently above the national average. Polling conducted throughout her term has consistently shown her approval ratings hovering around 40 percent.
She's had to deal with state budget problems that led her and fellow Democrats to raise the sales tax by a penny in 2009 and make deep cuts to education and health care. The first-term governor more recently clashed with the new Republican leadership in the General Assembly, which swept into power after the 2010 elections and gave GOP control of the Legislature for the first time since the 1870s.
Perdue has traded jabs with Republican leaders on issues ranging from jobless benefits to a measure allowing death row inmates to use statistical evidence of racial bias to challenge their convictions. In a sign of the tension, she vetoed a record 16 bills last year.
She faced scrutiny about her 2008 campaign and more than three dozen flights that she didn't initially report on campaign filings required by state election officials. A local prosecutor has said the governor wasn't the focus of his investigation, but four people have been indicted related to the flight investigation, including her former campaign finance director.
Perdue had said for months she was running again, and she raised more than $2.6 million in 2011. The amount was only slightly more than what McCrory had raised during last year ? a poor showing in a state where Democratic candidates routinely outspend Republicans in statewide elections. Perdue's term goes through the end of the year.
"To those of you who have supported me throughout my years of public service, I will always be grateful for the confidence you have placed in me," Perdue said. "In my remaining months in office, I look forward to continuing to fight for the priorities we share, by putting North Carolinians back to work and investing in our children's future."
Democratic state Rep. Bill Faison, who has been hinting he wanted to run for governor, said he was not surprised Perdue is stepping aside. For weeks, prominent people in the party worried about Perdue's low poll numbers had been visiting the governor and suggesting she not run, Faison said.
"I don't think anyone will be surprised by what that announcement is," Faison said.
Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, another Democrat, would seem to consider a run. Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, who toyed with a gubernatorial bid in 2008 but decided against the idea, announced Thursday he would run for a fourth term as the state's top law enforcement officer.
A native of Virginia, Perdue worked as a teacher and moved in the 1970s to the coastal town of New Bern, where she became director of geriatric services at a hospital before entering politics. She served in the Legislature and as lieutenant governor before being elected governor.
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Robertson reported from Raleigh. Associated Press writers Michael Biesecker and Tom Breen in Raleigh also contributed to this report.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
HTC EVO 4G and EVO View 4G reportedly reach end-of-life status
It was a landmark Android device, and it's been an iconic phone for Sprint, but it seems that this past week finally saw the venerable HTC EVO 4G reach end-of-life (EOL) status. According to an internal memo obtained by Sprintfeed, the EVO View 4G, Sprint's version of the HTC Flyer, will also be put out to pasture from Jan. 29. And there's bad news for our friends at CrackBerry, too, as it seems Sprint also plans to stop offering the BlackBerry Playbook from "late January".
While the EVO View (and the Playbook) haven't exactly been runaway successes, we're sure a few of you will have fond memories of the EVO 4G, which first appeared way back in June 2010. Hopefully we'll see these devices replaced by more compelling Android phones and tablets as the year progresses.
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Tracy Morgan out of hospital, back at work on "30 Rock" (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? A little altitude isn't enough to keep "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan in a Park City, Utah hospital. Morgan tweeted Monday that he had been released and planned to be back at the "30 Rock" set in New York on Tuesday.
"Thank U 2 the hospital staff. Back at work 2morrow shooting 30 Rock. Holla at me!" Morgan tweeted Monday.
He added: "Gotta thank the AMAZING medical staff and all my supporters! Love you. #GOgiants @Giants #ALLIN"
Morgan collapsed after an awards ceremony at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday and was rushed to a local hospital.
"Superman ran into a little kryptonite," he tweeted. "The high altitude in Utah shook up this kid from Brooklyn."
Morgan's rep had previously released a statement saying the star's collapse was the result of "a combination of exhaustion and altitude."
(Editing by Chris Michaud)
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Researchers report fundamental malaria discovery
Monday, January 23, 2012
A team of researchers led by Kasturi Haldar and Souvik Bhattacharjee of the University of Notre Dame's Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases has made a fundamental discovery in understanding how malaria parasites cause deadly disease.
The researchers show how parasites target proteins to the surface of the red blood cell that enables sticking to and blocking blood vessels. Strategies that prevent this host-targeting process will block disease.
The research findings appear in the Jan. 20 edition of the journal Cell, the leading journal in the life sciences. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Malaria is a blood disease that kills nearly 1 million people each year. It is caused by a parasite that infects red cells in the blood. Once inside the cell, the parasite exports proteins beyond its own plasma membrane border into the blood cell. These proteins function as adhesins that help the infected red blood cells stick to the walls of blood vessels in the brain and cause cerebral malaria, a deadly form of the disease that kills over half a million children each year.
In all cells, proteins are made in a specialized cell compartment called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) from where they are delivered to other parts of the cell. Haldar and Bhattacharjee and collaborators Robert Stahelin at the Indiana University School of Medicine- South Bend (who also is an adjunct faculty member in Notre Dame's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry), and David and Kaye Speicher at the University of Pennsylvania's Wistar Institute discovered that for host-targeted malaria proteins the very first step is binding to the lipid phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, PI(3)P, in the ER.
This was surprising for two reasons. Previous studies suggested an enzyme called Plasmepsin V that released the proteins into the ER was also the export mechanism. However, Haldar, Bhattacharjee and colleagues discovered that binding to PI(3)P lipid which occurs first is the gate keeper to control export and that export can occur without Plasmepsin V action. Further, in higher eukaryotic cells (such as in humans), the lipid PI(3)P is not usually found within the ER membrane but rather is exposed to the cellular cytoplasm.
Haldar and Bhattacharjee are experts in malaria parasite biology and pathogenesis. Stahelin is an expert in PI(3)P lipid biology, and David and Kaye Speicher are experts in proteomics and a method called mass spectrometry.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Obama aims to use war savings on infrastructure (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama proposed plowing half the money America will save from the end of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into high-speed rail lines and repairs to the nation's creaking roads and infrastructure.
The plan likely will face an uphill battle in Congress where Republicans frequently point to high-speed rail projects as a waste of money at a time of tight budgets.
"So much of America needs to be rebuilt," Obama said in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, adding the United States has "crumbling roads and bridges."
He provided no dollar figures for his plan. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated savings from the wars would result in "about $440 billion less" in spending in 2012-2021.
Democrats have previously proposed using some war savings to help pay for infrastructure upgrades but such ideas have died in Congress.
CONSTRUCTION JOBS
In recent years, the United States has fallen sharply in the World Economic Forum's ranking of national infrastructure systems. In the forum's 2007-2008 report, American infrastructure was ranked sixth best in the world. The 2011-2012 report showed America at No. 16. The quality of U.S. roads is now about on par with those of Malaysia.
Obama said the other half of the money saved winding down the wars would go to paying down U.S. debt.
Aiming to sell his idea as potentially creating jobs, the president said his proposal would help construction workers left unemployed by the 2007-09 recession.
"There's never been a better time to build," Obama said, adding that he will sign an executive order within weeks to clear away red tape for public construction projects.
The White House said Obama's infrastructure plans include more investments in high-speed rail, which began with $8 billion from the 2009 economic stimulus plan enacted to fight the nation's deep recession.
Obama's affection for fast trains has met a good deal of resistance, however.
Nearly a year ago, Florida Governor Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion in federal funds to build a high-speed line between Tampa and Orlando, saying it would put the state on the hook for billions of dollars it did not have. The fate of California's $100 billion project also looks unclear.
Last year, the president proposed a $556 billion, six-year transport plan that included high-speed funds, but which went nowhere in Congress.
(Additional reporting by Jason Lange and Richard Cowan in Washington and Jim Christie in San Francisco; Editing by Eric Walsh and Bill Trott)
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Obama administration nominees to top federal posts awaiting next move by Senate Republicans (Star Tribune)
Video: Wreath dropped for Concordia missing
The search for people still missing from the cruise ship Costa Concordia is set to resume.? Exactly a week since the liner ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, new video emerged of the moments before it capsized. On it, crew members can be heard telling passengers to return to their cabins. ITN?s Paul Davies reports.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Nike FuelBand is the hot, healthy new thing to wear around your wrist (Yahoo! News)
Following up on the pioneering success of the 2006's?Nike+, the company that started the?wearable digital fitness revolution has a slick new product. Meet the Nike+ FuelBand, a bracelet in the same fitness-forward family as the?FitBit and the?Jawbone Up
The FuelBand has a few neat tricks to set it apart. Sure, it'll track your perambulations, but it also converts all of your physical activity into a kind of health currency called NikeFuel. It tracks steps walked and calories burned, but it also uses oxygen kinetics to take a more precise measurement of your exertion ? and in true Nike fashion, it turns the result into a competitive sport.
You can compete against your own NikeFuel score of course, but you'll also be able to compare against your friends (or foes!) on Twitter and Facebook (and later Foursquare and Path, potentially). You can also check your progress toward your own goals at a glance via the bracelet's little colorful LED lights. The Nike FuelBand goes on pre-order today for $149 and begin shipping on February 22.
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This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
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2 - Boxer is a Free DOS Game Emulator for your Mac (Mac) Computer games have come a long way since the days of Doom, Zork, Tie Fighter, and Castle Wolfenstein, but many of us who grew up with those games would like to replay them. Boxer is a free app that will let you play any DOS game on your Mac.
- iBoostUp Cleans Out Your Mac's System File Clutter in a Minute (Mac) iBoostUp cleans out the crap on your drive and fine-tunes your system for better performance. It's simple, it's quick, and it's free.
- AntiCrop "Uncrops" Your Photos by Extending the Picture's Background (iOS) If you've ever taken a hasty photo on your phone and didn't leave enough room on the outside, AntiCrop is the app can "uncrop" those photos by filling in the edges with just a few swipes.
- Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iOS 5 Is Finally Here (iOS) iPhone-hacking group Chronic Dev Team just released the first untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1. We've explained why a tethered jailbreak can be such a hassle, which is why we've been waiting to recommend jailbreaking your up-to-date iPhone. Luckily, that wait is over.
- Clean My Desktop Sorts Files Into Content Specific Folders (Mac) A desktop filled with hundreds of files in a variety of formats can be a headache to clean up, but Clean My Desktop makes it easy by sorting everything into content specific folders based on the file type.
- MindNode Is a Mind Mapping App that Makes Brainstorming Simple and Easy (Mac/iOS) Regardless of the type of work that you do, brainstorming is an important part of generating new ideas and new approaches to getting your work done more efficiently. Mind mapping is a brainstorming technique that helps you get all of your interconnected thoughts out in a diagram, and there are a number of complicated tools designed to help you do it. MindNode for Mac and iOS is pricey, but it's one of the best tools we've seen for the job.
- Pomodroido Is an Elegant Pomodoro Timer for Your Android Phone (Pomodroido) If you're a fan of the Pomodoro productivity technique, you know that part of the philosophy is to work in short, focused, timed bursts and then take periodic breaks to relax. To do this, you'll need a timer, and Pomodroido is a free app that turns your Android phone into one that follows you everywhere.
- Forismatic Is a Free App that Helps You Relax and Keeps You Inspired Every Day (Mac) Computers are supposed to make our work easier, but in reality they often just bring us more work and stress us out. Give your Mac the opportunity to help you relax for a change with Forismatic, a free app that sits in the menubar until you need a little inspiration to help you keep going, and will remind you to take a break now and again to relax.
- Breathing Zone Guides You Towards Slower Breathing to Help Reduce Stress and Anxiety (Mac/iOS) Breathing Zone is a simple app that helps slow your breathing rhythm to calm you down and make you feel more relaxed. If you're a bit stressed or anxious, it's a good way to help you alleviate those feelings in just a few minutes.
- WatchMe Is a Desktop Timer that Keeps Track of Multiple Alarms at Once (Windows) Unfortunately, few of us have the luxury of only keeping track of one thing at a time. There are plenty of great timers available to help you keep track of how long you've been working or when you need to take a break, but if you need to track multiple times or set more than one timer, you may be out of luck. WatchMe is a timer that allows you to set multiple alerts and multiple timers so you're alerted at different times for different things.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Gym-Pact Rewards You for Going to the Gym with Cash, Charges You when You Skip Out [Video]
iOS: If you just signed up for a gym membership, completely convinced that you'll go every day this year, keep in mind you're essentially throwing money away when you don't go. If you need a little more motivation to make the trip and work out, Gym-Pact is a new iOS app and webapp that lets you put your money where your mouth is. Go to the gym and check in with your phone and you'll be rewarded with cash payouts. Skip your workouts, and the service penalizes you and your bank account.
From the "habit building by redistribution of wealth" department, Gym-Pact asks you to set the stakes when you sign up and tell the service how much money you're willing to lose if you miss your workouts, and how frequently you want to go to the gym. The service then uses your phone's GPS to make sure you're actually at the gym and not on your couch at home. If you miss too many days, the service penalizes you by charging you the amount you put on the line to make sure you go. The money it collects from people who don't go to the gym is then distributed every week among the people who did go, meaning you're rewarded with cash if you actually work out.
Gym-Pact supports over 40,000 gyms and fitness centers around the country, and even lets you add more?as long as it's an actual fitness center. No home gyms or office gyms allowed, likely because they worry that would make it too easy to game the system. Signing up may be a bit masochistic, but if you really need motivation to hit the gym, this service will definitely give it to you.
Gym-Pact | via Consumersearch Productopia
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Diane Abbott's controversial comment on social media site Twitter provokes much comment in Friday's papers.
Diane Abbott's controversial comment on social media site Twitter provokes much comment in Friday's papers.
The Daily Mirror concludes that the shadow health secretary was not racist but wrong.
The Sun calls her a "stupid twit" for saying that "white people love playing divide and rule".
Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph thinks that her apology for any offence caused, made after being told off by party leader Ed Miliband, was somewhat half-hearted.
The Stephen Lawrence murder trial continues to be front page news for the Daily Mirror.
Under the headline "Hit Them Harder", it reports that the attorney general is reviewing the prison terms given to Gary Dobson and David Norris.
The Times claims a secret diary written by a woman who was found hanged could have cleared her husband of murder.
It says the diary, which showed she had previously attempted suicide, was held by police for more than 16 years.
The Daily Telegraph leads with plans to give divorced parents the legal right to see their children.
It reports that courts will be required to ensure that both mothers and fathers have access to their children.
Meanwhile, shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy tells the Guardian Labour must stop rejecting all government spending cuts to achieve "genuine credibility".
Mr Murphy also tells the newspaper that he is prepared to accept ?5bn of defence cuts.
The death of photo-journalist Eve Arnold is marked with a number of striking images in the papers.
She was famous for intimate photographs of Marilyn Monroe, which explains the number of portraits of the star on the front pages of many papers.
But the Independent reminds us that she was equally comfortable shooting poverty-stricken migrant workers.
The Times describes her as "a small, steely woman who captured the affections of her diverse subjects".
Harvard Citation
BBC News, 2012. Newspaper review: Diane Abbott tweet hits headlines. [Online] (Updated 06 Jan 2012)Available at: http://www.manchesterwired.co.uk/news.php/215602-Newspaper-review-Diane-Abbott-tweet-hits-headlines [Accessed 06th January 2012]
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BP oil spill payments stalled in wrinkle over fees (AP)
NEW ORLEANS ? Damage payments from the compensation fund for BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been stopped temporarily as the fund says it needs time to follow a court order that part of the settlements be set aside to pay hundreds of lawyers.
On Tuesday, the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which was set up to handle claims against BP, said payments would be halted to comply with an order by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier requiring 6 percent of payments from Nov. 7 onwards go to plaintiffs' lawyers. The judge issued the order Dec. 28.
A statement from the claims facility said the fund needs time to reformulate payments and comply with the order.
Barbier's ruling throws a new wrinkle into a legal battle over fees and compensation.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
If You're Not Apple, You Need to Stop with the iNames [Rant]
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